No one can hold a candle to this score when it comes to "originality." It's nuts, and there's something about it that brings me back to it for repeated listens. Raw, messed up, rhythmic, worth it.

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What is this? After much deliberation, we're in agreement: this must be stuff recovered from the 1947 UFO crash outside Roswell, New Mexico. Yeah, you know all about the rancher, his wreckage, the government, the bodies, the autopsy films. And now the freaked-out music has been uncovered. No wonder the aliens ended up as they did. A Scanner Darkly, the soundtrack (Lakeshore), might be identified as the dark and moody underscore for Richard Linklater's latest film exploring a future world inspired by Philip K. Dick's hallucinogenic collapse, but in all its rotoscoped reality, this music is the soul of alien airwaves. It's experimental, it's otherworldly, there is little to recognize. Driving rhythms occasionally surface for everyone's mental sake (and are likely what helped the aliens go from one end of the universe to the other), but these darn weird how-do-you-describe-it electronic musical ambiguities certainly fuel the tension of a paranoid world (and likely cause saucers to crash). While most moviegoers don't seem to notice Graham Reynolds' music in the film (oh my, does it fit so perfectly?), the music encounters limitless space in the confines of a mind that wants no visual impedimenta. Are you the soundtrack nut fed up with hearing the same big Hans Zimmer powerhouse orchestral score in every other Hollywood blockbuster? Hello! It's time to electrify the senses with a little paradigm of paranoia. You'll be glad you did, and so will those assigned to watch you.

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There's a track called "Are you experiencing any difficulties?" that has what can be compared with a theremin (but it's not... I guess it's completely electronically produced). It moves into this acoustic digital trash... sounds fantastic.

Track 8 has this gong... and as it fades, it reverses and heads backwards. Coolest thing I've heard in a score for a while.... it's like "gong... here comes kong!" but then.... "uh, kong is morphing into a big beach ball" or something.

It's kind of interesting how Dick films seem to get these really interesting musical accompaniments.

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Originally posted by Mark Hatfield:

I thought Dick films got soundtracks full of disco and lousy with wah-wah pedal.

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